Gold Editorials & Commentary

The price of gold shot up over $60 last week. The price of silver moved up proportionally, gaining over $0.85. The mood is now palpable. The feeling in the air is that of long-suffering suddenly turned to optimism. Big gains, if not the collapse of the price-...

Historically the “invisible hand”, which was always at work in the global investment market, intuitively knew how to “read and play the markets”. However, it is increasingly difficult for the invisible hand to “read” the markets since the signals are increasingly...

Merv’s Gold and Silver 100 Index of 100 gold and silver stocks was up over 10% this past week. That’s an average increase of over 10% for all the stocks in the Index. However, the widely followed PHLX Gold/Silver Index was up 14.8% on the week.

It often is best ‘to make haste slowly’…and this seems exactly what the markets are doing. Market news this past week has been most excited about the rallies in gold and silver. However, if one looks at the daily charts in the US Markets this week, it will be seen...

The first point I would like to make is that many of you are probably wondering how I could reverse my long-term bearish view on the precious metals complex to a bullish view in such a short period of time.

Gold is showing some very good strength at this time, as the weaker dollar, combined with negative interest rates, and in some instances, NEGATIVE REAL RATES, has made the opportunity cost in holding the metal practically non-existent. Throw in the continued...

I have pointed out earlier, gold is forming a possible short-term top. It is on the verge of completing a bearish 'Head and Shoulder' pattern. The pattern is confirmed if gold closes below $1220/oz. The downside pattern target for this setup is $1138/oz.

China's historic post-2009 debt binge flew largely under the radar -- fooling most observers into thinking the global economy was recovering rather than just re-leveraging.

Gold and Silver have taken their seats inside the ivy-covered brick building, Professor Marché distributing to them "blue books" and No. 2 yellow wooden pencils with their wee red rubber-tip erasers. Then disinterestingly lighting his pipe, he utters the word "Begin...

As is always the case at these major turning points, the usual analysts are going to get it wrong again. The dollar is finishing an intermediate cycle decline, not starting one.

Regression to the mean. There is one universal law in this business and it never, never gets broken. Price always regresses to the mean. This one is like death and taxes. It is never violated. And the further price stretches in one direction, the harder it moves...

Stocks were choppy for much of the week with heavy hitting companies reporting poor numbers for the most part while a few did knock it out of the park. However, they weren’t enough to hold up the stock markets which began to fall Friday. I’m not so sure how deep...

Perhaps the most successful Ponzi scheme of all has been the Rothschild-led takeover and sapping of the entire United States since the American Civil War that started in 1861. The final stages were set with the not-so-lawfully-passed but fully implemented Federal...

Gold sector is on a new major buy signal and investors should cost average in at the next cycle bottom. Cycle is up but at levels of previous tops. COT data remains in bear market values and is now at levels of previous tops. Silver is on a long-term buy signal and...

This is a special preview of the KE Report Weekend Show. Fund Manager and founder of My401K.com, Dana Lyons, is featured in segment 7 of the show. The moves in gold and silver are discussed in terms of the XAU chart.

I did not want the day to pass without posting a few words on gold’s significant push to the upside, now trading just shy of the $1300 mark. To be sure, the dual positions with respect to rates on the part of the Bank of Japan (to stand pat) and the Federal Reserve...

What a move in the gold stocks! The sector has refused to correct for more than a few days at a time. All weakness has been bought as a wall of worry has been built and the sector emerges from a historic low that could be on par with the 1942 low in the stock market...

We continue to see articles by so called “experts” trashing Gold and Silver as investments. Gold is everything from a “Pet Rock” to a “Dumb Investment” or “Barbarous Relic.” Do these people even bother doing research? Or are they just stock shills?

The US and world economies are in serious trouble. Unfortunately, the majority of analysts continue to put out increasingly worthless forecasts as they fail to understand the true nature of the problem… or rather, the predicament we are facing.

Investors around the world are blissfully ignorant of what will hit them in coming months and years. Virtually no one understands the risks in the world and less than ½% of investors have protected themselves against the destruction of their financial assets.

These are shockingly bad times for big banks, especially when you consider that the overall economy is supposed to be fairly healthy. The latest example is Germany’s Deutsche Bank:

Technical Analysis of The Markets Via Videos.

James Rickards, economic and monetary expert, joined Bloomberg’s Francine Lacqua on Tuesday to discuss the gold “chart of the decade”, his new book “The New Case for Gold,” why gold is money and why gold is going to $10,000/oz in the coming years.

Gold is in the final phase of the baby bull rally. This is the stage that causes maximum pain for shorts that were unable to recognize that the bear market is over, or tried to sell short (I warned and warned traders not to short a baby bull).

The recent FOMC statement did not surprise the markets. On the contrary, the Bank of Japan dashed the investors’ hopes and decided to maintain the key policy rate steady while keeping the monetary base expansion at 80 trillion yen annually. The BOJ also pushed back...

In today’s musing I review the history of gold, silver and fiat currency as money in the United States of America. I document how various wars, panics and depressions, Congressional acts, and executive orders have affected the US dollar prices of precious metals and...

As expected, the Fed kept interest rates unchanged at between 0.25 and 0.50 percent (interestingly, Kansas City Fed President Esther George dissented for a second meeting in a row). The main reason for such a decision was the low inflation rate, as labor market...

For thousands of years, gold has been used as money, a store of wealth, fought over and sought after. Over the last 45 years, Western populations have had a mixed impression of gold. A minority of the population understands that gold is a monetary asset that should...

Below is a two-year daily chart for the HUI which I first showed you when it broke above the double bottom hump to start its bull market. I call this chart the Reverse Symmetry chart as shown by the red arrows. How a stock comes down, especially in a strong move,...

As we move through 2016, the Horsemen of the geopolitical, economic and social apocalypse are on the march. China burns through its currency reserves as billions in yuan flee the mainland for safe harbor. Japan prints mountains of yen debt in an effort to create...